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Don't they look delish? These are just some of the dishes that you can try at Han's Dim Sum. At affordable prices and guaranteed freshness (the dim sums are steamed upon ordering, not pre-steamed and kept heated) you'll be pleasantly surprised by how full-filling these dishes are. Looking for a quick lunch that is light on the tummy and pocket, but heavy on flavours and satisfaction, add Han's Dim Sum to your existing list. If you don't have a list yet, why not start with this?

Located at the Third Mile area, Han's Dim Sum occupies the corner lot of shophouses across Timberland Medical Center just next to Jolibee. Other landmarks to hep you spot the right location is Siang Siang Corner and Maxis. Here's the foursquare location. No pork, no lard, no alcohol served here. According to my host, Han's Dim Sum is trying to attract the younger generations to enjoy dim sums as a meal in general, and I have to agree, this place has all the perks that we all could enjoy (personally tho, if it comes to food, I'm game >.<)/

Let's start with the house specials - Chicken Rice Wrapped in Lotus Leaf. Choose your preferences be it roasted or steamed. As the name suggests, the chicken rice topped with chicken of your choice is wrapped with lotus leaf before being steamed, giving the pleasant aroma as you enjoy it. The portion is also good for a full lunch meal.

Next is another house specials - the Sifu Pau. This is another lunch-appropriate meal, and suitably made to enjoy dine-in or to go. It is a essentially a bundle of joy - a hot, steamed bun with glutinous rice, herbs, chicken and salted egg yolk (a Chinese friend told me it is essentially lo mai kai in a bun >.<)/  OMG I cannot get over the taste of it. I only had a quarter, but I kid you not, the bun was soft and supple (erk, that's a weird adjective to use on buns.. pun intended) the sticky rice and chicken was savoury, and the salted egg yolk was the surprise center. yummeeeehhh!!!! 

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The writer would like to stress that it is now 12.30 on a Saturday morning, and he hasn't had lunch and skipped breakfast and is now droooling at his own post >.<

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When it comes to choices of dim sum, there are many to choose from the menu. If you're a little lost at what to get, came with a couple of friends or simply have a big appetite, try Han's Yamcha Starter Set. This is the house favourite, serving the following dim sums:

Chicken Ham Roll

Seaweed Roll

Braised Chicken Wing

Century Egg Siew Mai

Chicken and Mushroom Siew Mai

and the chef's pick of the day.

Of course, you still have a choice to mix and match the individually priced dim sums from the menu.  Various condiments and dips are also available to dip the dim sums - I'm inclined to think that some dips complements a certain dim sum and do not work as well with others, but the only rule I follow is that if it taste good, it taste good. If not, try a different one. >.<  

Common kopitiam drinks are also available to wash down all those good food, or just order a pot of Chinese tea and shoot the breeze with your friends. 

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The writer would like to point out that he just realised Han's Dim Sum is less than 5 minutes drive from where he is currently at. There can be no doubt that he is going there for lunch >.<

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What do you get when you combine heat, marshmallow and cracker? S'more!!! Traditionally, marshmallows are roasted on an open fire (usually during camping trips) and then sandwiched between two graham crackers together with chocolate. Since I don't have any graham crakers - nor do I know how it looks like exactly having never found it anywhere in Kuching - which I'm almost certain some supermarkets do have them - I used Tiger crackers for substitute. As for chocolate, I got creative and sprinked Milo! >.<

Like I said, traditionally, the marshmallow would be roasted on fire - I took the high-tech approach of microwaving it (turns out after looking at Wikipedia, microwaving s'mores is pretty common...) And the result?

Looks good eh? I only dared to try one because at that time I had a suspicion that the marshmallow would explode in the microwave. For this particular s'more, I used medium power, 30 seconds - rest for 5 seconds, and another medium power for 20 seconds. The second time I tried it I used medium power for 50 40 seconds continuously - that did not turn out as well as the first. 

Anyways this is purely preference, but generally you don't want to heat it too much too long cuz then you'd have to wait for it to cool down or risk burning your tongue. Honestly, who has the patience when it comes to food?!

 

Trust me, this is an awesome snack to enjoy with family and friends over some football / basketball / tennis / badminton whatever, or just movies / series at home in the living room. If you do go out camping, I'm almost certain that roasted marshmallow beats microwave any day. 

Another guide - if you decide to use Milo or any powder form (milk / chocolate powder) -  sprinkle, don't spoon. As you can see in the picture above, it tend to melt and then stick together forming a candy hard sweet center filling. Not chewy, just hard. Unless if you're into biting hard candy, I don't recommend it..